A ship was bought from Hamburg-Amerikanischen Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft HAPAG and given instruments to be able to perform scientific measurements.

The ship had travelled over 32.000 nautical miles. The expedition was very successful. The results were published in 24 volumes. It actually managed to find a large number of new animal forms, yet to investigate them on board the ship and to preserve them eventually. Knowing the deep-sea fauna has been significantly expanded.